Ransomware’s New Era: Moving at AI Speed
Threat actors bypass security tools and use AI to launch faster ransomware attacks that exploit valid credentials and target data.
Threat actors bypass security tools and use AI to launch faster ransomware attacks that exploit valid credentials and target data.
A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language.
Oracle Identity Manager Exploit Observation from September (CVE-2025-61757) We observed some exploit attempts in September against an Oracle Identity Manager vulnerability that was patched in October, indicating that exploitation may have occurred prior to the patch being released. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Oracle%20Identity%20Manager%20Exploit%20Observation%20from%20September%20%28CVE-2025-61757%29/32506 https://slcyber.io/research-center/breaking-oracles-identity-manager-pre-auth-rce/ DigitStealer: a JXA-based infostealer that leaves little footprint https://www.jamf.com/blog/jtl-digitstealer-macos-infostealer-analysis/ SonicWall DoS Vulnerability Sonicwall patched a […]
Distracting the Analyst for Fun and Profit Our undergraduate intern, Tyler House analyzed what may have been a small DoS attack that was likely more meant to distract than to actually cause a denial of service https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Distracting%20the%20Analyst%20for%20Fun%20and%20Profit/32308 GitHub s plan for a more secure npm supply chain GitHub outlined its plan to harden the supply […]

Mic 3: https://amzn.to/3JEyNlU Pocket 3: https://amzn.to/4mH2mSA Mic Mini: https://amzn.to/4mH2mSA Kanal unterstützen und …
Interesting Technique to Launch a Shellcode Xavier came across malware that PowerShell and the CallWindowProcA() API to launch code. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Interesting%20Technique%20to%20Launch%20a%20Shellcode/32238 NX Compromised to Steal Wallets and Credentials The popular open source NX build package was compromised. Code was added that uses the help of AI tools like Claude and Gemini to steal credentials from affected […]
Airtel Router Scans and Mislabeled Usernames A quick summary of some odd usernames that show up in our honeypot logs https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Airtel%20Router%20Scans%2C%20and%20Mislabeled%20usernames/32216 Apple Patches 0-Day CVE-2025-43300 Apple released an update for iOS, iPadOS and MacOS today patching a single, already exploited, vulnerability in ImageIO. https://support.apple.com/en-us/124925 Microsoft Copilot Audit Logs A user retrieving data via copilot obscures […]
Scans for pop3user with guessable password A particular IP assigned to a network that calls itself Unmanaged has been scanning telnet/ssh for a user called pop3user with passwords pop3user or 123456 . I assume they are looking for legacy systems that either currently run pop3 or ran pop3 in the past, and left the user […]